Post-Medieval
Ring money
These manillas are metal bracelets, used in 16th and 17th century Africa for trading. They may have been made in Britain to exchange for African goods. Europeans bought goods and enslaved people from the so-called 'Slave Coast' in southern Nigeria. The people were then taken by ship to the Americas or the Caribbean to work on sugar plantations.
- Category:
- Post-Medieval
- Object ID:
- 85.59/44
- Object name:
- ring money
- Object type:
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- Material:
copper alloy
- Measurements/duration:
- L 89 mm, W 74 mm
- Part of:
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- On display:
- London Museum Docklands: London, Sugar and Slavery Gallery
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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